ashley87

jbedwar1 wrote:I like the cloud's expression, but i think the raindrops would work better if they had more of an angry expression than a scared one. And maybe some scars or something to make them look like soldiers (not that raindrops could have scars). I think that would be cool.

But they're scared because they're going to splatter on the hard ground after a gigantic fall. I would certainly be scared, heh.

daedalusknight

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your shirt is going to be rejected by Woot. Here are the problems I see with it:

--Woot won't be able to print gradients or halftones. This is especially true of photo shirts.

--Woot can't print shirts with more than six ink colors

--Your image appears to be larger than the printable area of the shirt.

There's still time to submit a different shirt. Please click the red "X" above your entry to delete it. Design a new shirt and submit that one instead. That way you can avoid rejection and still be in the contest. Good luck to you!

Figit090

gargrazz wrote:The design is placed as high as possible on the shirt. The fingers are well above the region where I would have been going for a lewd sight gag. I'm just going for the cheap Three Stooges laugh, not a juvenile boobie-shirt.

I think you placed it well. if it was at any other angle it wouldn't make sense. I holy my head relatively level most of the time, so why poke at my eyes at an angle?

Figit090

AdderXYU wrote:that shouldn't be an issue... it's a distinct robot, to me. I'd be more worried about it being outside their print area.

I agree it shouldn't be an issue, bender has several distinctions that are WAY different than this, not to mention the head.

I also agree on the print area, its a minor detail, but being this early in getting votes i would consider re-sizing and re-submitting before you loose your chance to get votes on the resub. I'm not really sure about the print area though so i dont know how close you are to it.

Figit090

Figit090 wrote:I agree it shouldn't be an issue, bender has several distinctions that are WAY different than this, not to mention the head.

I also agree on the print area, its a minor detail, but being this early in getting votes i would consider re-sizing and re-submitting before you loose your chance to get votes on the resub. I'm not really sure about the print area though so i dont know how close you are to it.

I take that back! another shirt just got rejected for the printable area, and two of the most recent rejects are just next to yours, looks like you're ok!

daedalusknight

Figit090 wrote:I agree it shouldn't be an issue, bender has several distinctions that are WAY different than this, not to mention the head.

I also agree on the print area, its a minor detail, but being this early in getting votes i would consider re-sizing and re-submitting before you loose your chance to get votes on the resub. I'm not really sure about the print area though so i dont know how close you are to it.

aerodino

AdderXYU wrote:Sheep are too placid to go with negative critiques. Though perhaps lemmings would make more sense.

and seriously, I don't understand how Edgar gets pulled into this. I've never seen him finish in the fog, and normally even when he starts in it, he finds he's plummeted out of the top 10 by derby close. No one votes for people based just on the name. If they did, there would be some place where those names hung out and begged for votes among their friends. The reason certain people have consistent placements is because they have skill and style. You can see it as their name, but the fact is, if a designer fogs every week, and every week the shirt that fogs is wearable, artful, and thoughtful, that's because the designer does good work, not because the designer has a popular name. If people seek out edgar, it is because they love his past work and know that his style is such that they'll likely enjoy the new work as well. If you love Van Gogh's work, you're more apt to buy a book of his paintings, and if you like Edgar or Cho or Gentry, you're more apt to look at their work. Because it's good, and consistently so. That's the only advantage a name has... it shows you who does the work that doesn't suck.

This is all very humorous to me. I started doing Woot T-shirts about a month ago on a whim, mostly to force myself to learn how to use layering and figure out all the options of Photoshop Elements. I am a fine artist and photographer, but have never felt a real need to use Photoshop in my work.

One of the first things I noticed about the voting was the sheep mentality. Once a design becomes somewhat popular everyone jumps on the band wagon, or into the sheep herd. I would love to see a contest with absolutely anonymous postings of designs. Woot would have to repost everything sans names. I wonder if more people would have a chance to be in the fog then.

I am going to keep at it because it is a great learning experience for me, and it is an interesting social study; is it all gamers and computer geeks here, or will other genres come forth? I also love looking at the creative ideas displayed here under such a quick deadline for design.

My novice techniques and past generation designs will never go over big here, but I love getting a few votes here and there along with the satisfaction of completing a design while learning the process.

aerodino

Yey - I'm in the 20s, whoops, that's counting my own vote.
I did the greyhound/dachshund shirt which took about a third of the time as this one. Throw a few more votes this way - I like to race my designs against each other, since they will never win, place, or show.

cwilco01

Sloths are awesome. Someday they will take over the world and wear designer shoes and I'll be firends with them and live in their slothy mossy maggot filled backs and ride them (slowly) threw the forest.

namgorf

cheapojoe wrote:True, Motion = Wii Remote. But I can't see Nintendo allowing the third party sale of t-shirts with their patented technology on them. Even though I'd like one, I'm expecting a rejection. Still, props on the design.

The classic controller for the NES has been reproduced in design quite a bit, and I consider it to be an icon.

While the same isnt quite true yet for the wiimote, it is a departure in normal design, and it is much loved. I like it.

sokowa

lifesource wrote:i like the design, but I am not a big fan of the color. IMO, It would be much better if you change the color- let's say- to bright yellow (for the design) on olive shirt.

I'll certainly keep those color combinations in mind for the next design, thanks! I'm going to ride this one out as is. I've got an interesting mix of like/dislike for this shirt and the color. I never knew how some people felt about baby blue. It's an awesome color! ;)

syntheticmessiah

I like the concept and art..but what I do not like is how the blue area squiggles down and the silhouettes shrink progressively with it...My brain wants to see silhouettes of differing sizes; eventually when you get down to the 'tail' of the squiggle thered be so many silhouettes that its just black...sort of blending. If you get what I mean.

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